AN: Hello every Body I know this isn't an update to an "Ancient Relic" but fret not I will get on that I am going through a bout of writers block with that story and needed a break plus I started work on another project as you clearly see here and I have more inspiration with this story series and most likely will be focusing on this for a while, but enough of me babbling you came here to read a story not listen to my problems with that out of the way I present to you the first chapter of "Soul of the Jedi Journey Through the Unknown."

(Chapter 1 Changing of the guard)

The Jedi Temple, a bastion of light and hope was in flames as the 501st legion stormed the temple, the time of the Jedi was drawing to a close. However the Jedi along with their allies the Antarian Rangers and Freedom Warriors were putting up a fierce resistance against the clones.

"Hold the line!" a man with long white hair flowing down to his waist armed with an emerald blade of light held in a firm grip in his right hand ordered to the armored sentinels wielding pale yellow saber staffs blocking the blue beams of plasma heading towards them, back at the shooters.

Suddenly the wrist comm beeped and the master brought up to his in front of his face

"Master Drallig!" A voice exclaimed with a sense of dread which Cin Drallig recognized as one of the antarian rangers named Aaron Sobec "We have clone assassins tearing up our ranks in the hanger."

"Hold out as long as you can, Master K'kruhk, Padawan Piru, and Padawan Valo, are on their way there with some initiates they'll be there as soon as possible" He knew how deadly the assassins were, he helped train them 'Now, I really regret that decision' He thought grimly.

"Copy that sir." The ranger said relief evident in his voice as he disconnected the call.

Cin than focused more on the battle, he turned to his student probably one of his finest and knew that today both him and her wouldn't make it out alive, his student whom he considered a daughter, he desperately wished he could get her to safety but he knew she would stay here to the bitter end.

Sera turned to her master her brown eyes meeting his hazel one's they stared at eachother for a few seconds but it felt like an eternity no words needed to be spoken, they nodded in agreement if they were to die the would take as many of these pawns with them, because in the end that's all the clone were, pawns, the thought made the aged battle master feel pity for these soldiers, created for the sole purpose of fighting for the republic he wondered if any of them understood that the republic they were fighting for had already fallen.

In the end it didn't really matter he supposed, and took his stance and with a battle cry charged pass the line of the Jedi Guard with Sera behind him and four knights deflecting bolts that came his way as he charged, when he came to the first clone he slashed at his neck beheading him, deflected a bolt directly at another clone's head killing him instantly he went at each of the clones directly in his path carving his way through them as if he were a hot knife going through warm butter, soon he saw two dozen clone assassins heading his way and promptly told his companions "Assassin's, Be on guard." Sera saw them and readied herself her twin emerald sabers casting a green light on her face as they prepared to face their quarry.

The Clones prepared their wrist mounted vibroblades and charged, vaulting over debris that littered the once beautiful hallway when necessary to reach the six jedi whom took defencive stances, when they clashed the clones struck with incredible speed but the Jedi held their ground, each Jedi were fighting four of the assassins at once Cin used the force to stagger one of the clone and lunged his blade into his chest killing him, Sera had dispatched two of her attackers and the other jedi dispatched at least one of their group as well, however one of the Jedi screamed in pain as one of the clone assassins slashed his neck making the poor man gurgle on his own blood collapsed to the floor than another stabbed him in the chest ending his life quickly.

Now down to five jedi and 17 clones Cin regarded each of them, than he did something incredible the other Jedi sensed this and immediately dropped to the floor before the clones could react Cin struck his hands out and sent a telekinetic wave all around him knocking all the clone off their feet and some loose debris some of them hit their heads on some debris and some debris landed on them effectively knocking them unconscious and pinning a few, the Jedi immediately sprang to their feet and attacked as the assassins attempted the same but most were cut down as the tried to stand reducing their number down to five, each Jedi chose an assassin and attacked, the assassins were hard pressed to fight now as they were better suited to fight Jedi knights in groups so the Jedi made quick work of them after that was over Dralig turned to his dead comrade and walked over to him.

"We secured this area for now, we need to keep this corridor cleared of enemies so our brothers and sisters may escape." Master Drallig said as he bent down and looked at the lifeless corpse that had a pained expression permanently etched into his face. Cin sighed sadly and close the dead man's blank eyes "Let's get going." he said as he stood up he turned to the temple guards "Hold this corridor don't let a single clone through. I have never given you an order more important than this." He said the guards nodded and would gladly give their lives for the Jedi.

as Cin and his comrades turned and ran down the littered corridor Cin couldn't help but think to himself 'I hope Master K'kruhk succeeded.'

(Meanwhile in the Hangar)

'these assassins are tough S. ' Aaron thought to himself as he grappled with one of them thanks to his own training in martial arts he was able to hold his own against these deadly killers. But ultimately the clones were much faster thanks to their genetic modifications and training in Teras Kasi and Aaron was knocked to the ground with the assassin's foot pinning him down and bringing his vibroblade down to end the ranger's life.

Suddenly the sound of a blaster bolt being fired filled his ears as a crimson bolt hit the clone in the head his helmet doing little to protect him. Aaron looked to see where the shot had come from and saw another ranger with his blaster barrel smoking he also had a few slash marks but nothing life threatening, he was his younger brother Caleb Sobec.

"Where is our support?" Caleb shouted at him as he fired his blaster at another clone.

"Master K'kruhk is almost here." Aaron reassured his weary brother, they both were exhausted from engaging these assassins in hand to hand combat for about thirty minutes now but their willpower and determination to save as many Jedi as possible kept them going.

Before Caleb could respond the door opened and the remaining clone assassins turned to face the threat seeing the whiphid Jedi master K'kruhk armed with a green lightsaber, standing with two jedi padawans a boy armed with yellow lightsaber and a girl armed with a green lightsaber several jedi younglings and two more rangers behind them.

The tension in the air was palpable, so much so that it felt troublesome to breath as the jedi stared at the assassins and the assassins stared back.

Aaron looked at Caleb who made the signal of "be ready." as he took aim at the distracted clones the tension snapped as he pulled the trigger and hit one of the clones in the head killing him, one of the assassins turned and started to charge him.

"I'm going to eviscerate you!" he shouted as he charged, his helmet removing the anger from the voice making it sound more robotic than human.

He never got to make good on his threat as Aaron took aim with his pistol and shot him in the torso causing him to stagger then he shot him again causing the clone to fall to the ground unmoving.

The rest of the assassins divided most of them charged the jedi the others went after the rangers.

Aaron blasted those he could as did Caleb but two of them split off and charged at each of them forcing them to fight in hand to hand again.

Caleb met his by dodging his opponents first swing causing him to overswing and throwing the assassin in a headlock bringing him down before pulling out his pistol and shooting his armored face point blank effectively killing him.

Aaron threw his throwing knife at the assassin to slow him down and drew his combat knife and met his opponent in a flurry of strikes aiming for the armor's weak points using his training in Echani martial arts to great effect after several minutes of slashing, parrying, as well as receiving a few cuts the ranger saw an opening and took it, he grabbed his opponent's wrist and twisted it till it snapped causing the clone to scream in pain before Aaron plunged his knife into the assassin's neck and ripped it out causing the assassin to bring his hand up to delay the inevitable than a blaster bolt hit the clone's head ending his suffering.

This time the shooter was one of the rangers who escorted master K'kruhk, he wasn't human given the fact that he had blue skin and eyes that seemed to glow like a sith's crimson lightsaber, he was the chiss Mi'ika'akah also called 'Micah' for the sake of ease.

Aaron nodded at him which 'Micah' reciprocated and turned to help protect the initiates from the remaining clones who numbered about twelve assassins against two Jedi, a battle seasoned master and an experienced padawan, and four rangers.

K'kruhk lept into the air and brought his lightsaber down on the nearest assassin who managed to avoid the blow, another assassin moved to attack K'kruhk's exposed flank but the male padawan intercepted him before he could.

"You haven't seen anything as fast as me." the clone taunted the padawan.

"I wouldn't say that." Daniel quipped before waving his hand and bringing the assassins legs out from under him causing him to fall to the ground "You're no match for the masters." he finished as he moved to finish the downed enemy.

however the clone struck first, slashing at Daniel's leg and cutting deep Daniel screamed in agony as his leg was forcibly separated from his body and he collapsed.

The clone stood up and walked over to him "You're not a master though." the clone said as he prepared to end the young man's life "Just a pathetic padawan." and began to bring his blade down only for him to be tackled followed by an enraged roar.

Daniel lifted his head to see that his quarry was tackled by the second ranger that escorted K'kruhk and him as well as the younglings here. He was probably one of the few of his kind to join the rangers he had fur all over his body and had humanoid features he was one of the fearsome wookies his name was Rohkea.

Rohkea was slamming his fist into the downed assassin's face that dared to harm the young Jedi cub, he was hitting him with the force of a meteorite, each blow sounded like a crack of a big bore slugthrower being fired.

after a few moments he stopped punching, grabbed him on both sides of his head and savagely snapped the clones neck with 'krick' killing the assassin.

Aaron ran to Daniel's side and assessed the damage as Caleb and Micah shot the clone assassins trying to swarm master K'kruhk and Padawan Piru "We need to amputate it." Aaron said after seeing the damaged limb that was barely attached to the bloody stump.

Daniel gritted his teeth "Use my lightsaber." he bit out trying to block out the pain Aaron understood and grabbed the hilt of the saber then he grabbed a piece of cloth tied a knot and held it to Daniel.

"Bite down on this." He ordered Daniel compiled and breathed in and out as calmly as he could but the nervousness was getting to him as Aaron activated the yellow blade and brought it to his left leg and cut just above the knee. As he cut it off Daniel screamed into the cloth as the heat of the blade burned him with what felt like the heat of an atmospheric re entry. After the deed was done his left leg was now a cauterized stump "We'll get you a prosthetic don't worry." he reassured the young padawan who couldn't be more than fourteen this was probably going to haunt him for the rest of his life, probably haunt all of the younglings.

Daniel nodded "At least... we... rescued... some.. of... the younglings" he gasped out "I'd... say that...my leg...was worth...it." he finished then he started breathing erratically Aaron recognized he was having a panic attack.

"Daniel you're having a panic attack, breath in." he said and did the same "and out." he said as he exhaled "Breath in." inhale. "And out" exhaled after several minutes of this Daniel finally calmed down and passed out.

"Is he all right." Caleb asked as they finished off the last assassin with master K'kruhk coming up to them

"He'll be fine." Aaron assured them "but we need to get him to a medical facility."

"Easier said than done, all Jedi will be hunted down like animals after this, where could we go?" Micah asked drawing some looks of contemplation.

"Polas Massa is our best choice." K'kruhk said catching their attention "they will help anyone in need no matter who they may be."

"We all can't go at once they might track us down." Micah said after a moment of thought "I think we should take two separate ships one to go to Polis Massa the other to find a suitable planet to hide on." he finished after a moment the whiphid master agreed.

"I agree, Padawan Piru and I will take the initiates on one ship, you four take Daniel to Polis Massa." K'kruhk said however one of the younglings a human or at least he looked like a human no older than eleven walked over to K'kruhk.

"Master?" He began timidly."May I go with them?" he asked indicating the Rangers and injured padawan.

K'kruhk looked at the boy then at Daniel, smiled and nodded " Yes you can Vega." he than turned to the rangers "May the force be with you." he said.

"And you as well master K'kruhk." Aaron said with respect "I hope we meet again." He said softly

"As do I." K'kruhk said and turned to the younglings and the other padawan "Let's get out of here!" he exclaimed as they boarded a ship.

"I think we should be going as well." Caleb said as he walked over to Daniel's unconscious form and went to pick him up when he hissed in pain the adrenaline had worn off and now he was feeling the pain of the slash marks all over his body.

(I will take him) Rohkea said as he walked forward (you should get those cuts looked at young cub) he said on his face was the wookiee equivalent of a smile.

"Thanks big guy" Caleb said through gritted teeth more from pain than annoyance at being called a cub.

"Let's board the ship now and get out of dodge!" Aaron ordered as they boarded their ship and blasted off, and broke through the blockade and made the jump to hyperspace.

(Several Hours Later, Polas Massa medical facility)

After transmitting their docking codes and stating the reason they were there they were ordered to land.

When they got into the hanger a team of medical personal and droids were waiting for them when they got off the ship the medical crew put Daniel on the gurney and whisked him off to the E.R..

After that everyone was checked out and had bacta packs given to them and their wounds cleaned and cleared they quietly waited in the waiting room for the doctor to show up to tell them Daniel's condition.

The silence was getting to Caleb usually this wouldn't be a problem, but he couldn't help but feel a bit restless he needed to talk to someone to distract his mind.

"So, what's our next move?" he finally asked drawing the attention of his four companions "Well we can't stay here forever, so where are we going after we're done here?" he finished causing them to contemplate what he said which was agreeable in anycase.

"What if we try to find master K'kruhk?" Vega asked nervously only to be met with silence.

"...I don't know where he's gone young one." Aaron finally answered gently as he got to eye level with the lad "The galaxy is a big place it doesn't seem likely that we'll find him." He said in the same tone the boy nodded in understanding.

"What about the outer rim?" Caleb asked, "or better yet the unknown regions?" earning looks of disbelief from Aaron and Rohkea.

"Going into the unknown regions without an exhibition fleet is suicide." Aaron said dismissing the idea.

"Not necessarily." Mikah said catching all their attention "My people come from what you call the "Unknown Regions"." He explained.

"Will your people offer us sanctuary?" Caleb asked hopefully.

"No, but they will not hinder us if we want to travel through their space, probably under escort." Mikah answered.

"Why wouldn't they help us?" Aaron asked.

"The Chiss Ascendancy has a… difficult time trusting outsiders." The Blue skinned man said uneasily.

"I think it's our best option." Caleb said enthusiastically.

"Would they destroy our ship for violating their space?" Aaron asked seriously causing Caleb to deflate at that.

"Yeah that would be a downer." Caleb said with a fake chuckle trying to relieve the tension in the room, it didn't work.

"I don't think so, the Chiss prefer not to start a conflict if they can help it." Mikah answered causing everyone to relax when they heard that.

"So, we're in agreement then we'll travel through Chiss Space when we're done here?" he asked receiving a growl of agreement from Rohkea, a 'Yes sir' from Mikah, and a nod from Caleb and Vega "Good, now we wait for word on Daniel." He finished and silence filled the room again.

After a few hours Aaron couldn't help but think of the fact that Vega had wanted to come with them instead of go with his peers and master K'kruhk, and K'kruhk had no objection either, after a few moments he walked over to the boy got down to eye level with him and asked, "Why did you want to come with us?" his voice was curious and held no malicious intent but still the boy was nervous.

"I… uh I." The boy stammered trying to answer the man's question.

"It's alright I don't bite." Aaron joked flashing a smile in hopes of reassuring the boy and it seemed to be working as the boy smiled in amusement "Take your time there's no rush." he finished.

"... Daniel's like a brother to me." Vega finally answered as he looked at Aaron who had a warm smile on his face.

"Really how so?" he asked interested in the response

"Well... you see I was one of the few initiates brought in at a late age." The boy said causing Aaron to get a look of contemplation.

"How old were you? Aaron inquired.

"I was seven." he answered surprising the ranger, he had heard of younglings being brought in later of course, Anakin Skywalker who was nine years old when he was brought in, and Rahm Kota who was eighteen when he joind. But these were rare cases and not done very often.

he was cut from his musings when the boy continued speaking "I had a hard time adjusting to it all and some of the younglings my age didn't really help, Daniel was one of the few that approached me as a friend and helped me in a lot of ways I feel the least I can do for him is help him in this time." the boy said with a small smile on his face which Aaron reciprocated and ruffled his hair drawing a laugh from the boy.

"He's lucky to have you as a brother." The ranger said sincerely as he patted his shoulder.

Before the boy could respond the door hissed open and a medical droid came through "You may see the patient now" it said in its robotic voice, all of them got up from their chairs and followed the droid.

As they walked through the clean and polished hallway they couldn't help but wonder how Daniel was taking the fact that he lost his leg and now had a prosthetic, would he suck it up and live with it or would he go through a mental breakdown.

They were brought back to reality when they saw their injured companion asleep on the bio bed a peaceful look on his young face.

Seeing as he was asleep the group decided to make themselves comfortable and wait for him to awaken from his peaceful slumber.

AN: Any way I would like to thank RevengeS197 for helping me with this story Go check out his stuff he has some great stories one is a Halo Star wars cross over called "A Galaxy Divided." and a Call of Duty RWBY cross over called "The Wheels Just Keep On Turning." I will post the second chapter tomorrow yes I completed the first five chapters of this story and am working on the sixth let me know what you like, dislike offer criticism people it only serves to improve my writing and I can produce better quality chapters.